Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-21
ONCE AGAIN.
Remarks About Our Former Capitol
Building.

Remarks About Our Former Capitol
Building.
The State House is not old, it dates fifteen
years later than the churches on the Green
It is q modern built structure, massive,
solid, strong, deep and good foundations; the
four enclosing walls are from two to three
feet thick. Two central lengthwise walls re-
ceive eight eighteen-inch cross-walls on the
west side Snd four cross-walls the east
side. All reach from the ground to the caves
of the building. The two inside 1engthwise
walls at the buildings center form hollow
column forty feet in diameter, which with the
cross-walls make the enclosing ones abso-
1utely immovable. Place spirit level on the
window sills or stonewofk aud now, nearly
sixty years after their placing, they are as
true as in 1928 when laid. No better edi
fee adorns our upper Green. Its right there
is indisputaSle. It's steps, abutments, paved
porticoes, are graceful, useful and faultless.
Not line can be changed without hurting
the symmetry and beauty of the whole.
Whether to repair with new marble or gran
tie for all that has crumbled away is a very
simple, plain question, easily answered. Per-
sonal inspection will convince the bitterest of
its would-be destroyers that the edifice can be
made an attractive, worthy ornament of our
city. Its friends are sadly disappointed that
the Admiral Foote post fair is not to be held
there as first agreed upon. Twenty or thirty
Thousand visitors would in that case Gas in
former fairs held there have visited this
grand, sacred, memorial building. 1t
Is painful .ocao kn inSv fa that the
permission might have secured this fine
showing of all the rooms of the State House
and made every visitor firm friend for its
thorough immediate repair. So important is
this half million invested, or half million
gained, that the voters should ask that the
4e Ia Il
basement of the State House or in the hall
rotunda and rooms above. The vote will
thus be made more fair reasonable and Just
The place is exactly our city center.
The ungracious words on the door to the
historical room, ssFor members onIv.'' ia
made intolerabie by the door being now
locked against members and all, since what
he deems the uncalled for dispensing with
of the late curator. Objects of value, books
men and women often from a great
distance, are constantly applying for
thheir usual access and fair attention
society by the closing of its rooms is very
great every day. 1t requires ability, training,
time and character above all to manage the
society, and care for its loans and contribu-
tons. Its collection, library and privileges
are the most important trust our city holds.
Its officers will be held to the very strictest
responsibility.
The case of the curator commands prompt
attention. He at least is ready for the most
rigid examination as to the correspondence,
the books of record and expenses, his colleo-
tor book and catalogue of books and that of
objects of interest. All have been under his
charge. It is very wrong for him to be de-
prived of these books needed for making up
Of his annual accounts, and he ought not to
be, nor any other member, locked out of the
room.
At the meeting of the directors of the His |
torieal society at their rooms on Saturday |
evening the curator was present and apollo |
gized for and withdrew his protest of last |
Saturday las founded on a misunderstanding |
of the facts in the case
GEORGE SHERMAN,
Curator and Notary.